[sib-access] Fwd: WE NEED TO HELP KEEP SIBELIUS IN BUSINESS!

From: Kevin Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx>
To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:11:37 -0500
Very distressing news.  
We all need to write to the addresses below.  

Dan,
Any thoughts?
Kevin

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Charles Fernandez <tronec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: July 27, 2012 5:19:49 PM CDT
> To: Charles Fernandez <tronec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: WE NEED TO HELP KEEP SIBELIUS IN BUSINESS!
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I got this email about Sibelius with ways to helpâ?¦ Please consider helping.
> 
> 
> In July 2012, Avid Technology announced the closure of Sibelius UK, home of 
> the Sibelius development and support team. Avid claims this will make no 
> difference to Sibelius. Nothing could be further from the truth. Click 
> "About" to read on...
> 
> Sibelius is a music composing/arranging application designed, maintained and 
> supported by the Sibelius Team in the UK Office. The UK Office is closing, 
> and the programmers and designers who have made Sibelius a major success will 
> not be able to further develop the best computer based composing/arranging 
> application 
> in existence today.
> 
> With the release of Version 7, Avid can reap profits to shore up its Wall St 
> losses for many years from product sales without any ongoing development or 
> technical support. However, Sibelius is far more than just code, it lives and 
> breathes in the hearts and minds of its inventors and developers. Remove 
> them, and Sibelius eventually becomes roadkill.
> 
> We implore those of you who use this marvelous composing application 
> to write the board here:
> http://ir.avid.com/contactBoard.cfm
> 
> The direct email addresses for the CEO and other Avid VP/Directors are:
> 
> Chris Gahagan (Senior Vice President of Products)
> who we believe actually closed the Sibelius London office.
> His email is: chris.gahagan@xxxxxxxx
> 
> Gary Greenfield (CEO): gary.greenfield@xxxxxxxx
> 
> Martin Kloiber (VP Live Systems and Consoles at Avid Technology): 
> martin.kloiber@xxxxxxxx
> 
> Dana Ruzicka (VP Strategic Alliances at Avid Technology): 
> dana.ruzicka@xxxxxxxx
> 
> Ian Bruce (Worldwide Director of Corporate Communications): ian.bruce@xxxxxxxx
> 
> and the AVID Blog:
> http://community.avid.com/blogs/avid/archive/2012/07/07/sibelius-community.aspx
> 
> Registered offices of Avid worldwide including Fax numbers:
> http://www.avid.com/us/about-avid/office-locations
> 
> Based on its latest published figures, Avid is in financial trouble. Right 
> after the most recent stockholders meeting, all the Avid board of directors 
> sold significant shares of stock, clearly a co-ordinated sale. 
> 
> Simultaneously, several key executives resigned, including Vice President, 
> CFO and CTO. Avid is short of cash and desperately trying to shore up its 
> liquidity with reckless cost cutting.
> 
> Sibelius is viable as a standalone company, but without sustained pressure 
> from its users, Avid will try to run it offshore, most likely in the Ukraine. 
> This short-term thinking is solely to ease Avid through its present cash 
> crisis, not in any way for the benefit of Sibelius users. In fact it will 
> effectively destroy Sibelius.
> 
> Please help us to persuade Avid that it is in everyoneâ??s best interests for 
> them to sell Sibelius to a third party as soon as possible. This will still 
> ease its cash crisis, but will ensure Sibelius lives on in safe hands.
> 
> Save Sibelius campaign contact info:
> 
> Derek Williams
> derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +44 (0)785 760 2004
> +44 (0)131 208 3668
> Fax: +44 (0)131 777 2573
> 

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